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____________________________ Thursdays 7.30pm-9.30pm Scottish Country Dancing Long Sutton Village Hall. 01460 929383 or anitaandjim22@gmail.com

____________________________ Sunday 2nd 2pm-4pm Singing Bowl Soundbath Oborne Village Hall. £15. Bookings 01935 389655 ahiahel@live.com centreforpuresound.org/events

____________________________ Wednesday 5th 10.30am The Probus Club of Sherborne: The Samaritans - with guest speaker William Christopher The Grange Hotel, Oborne. New members always welcome. 01935 813448. probus-sherborne.org.uk

____________________________ Wednesday 5th 7.30pm Birds of Passage (2018) 15 Cinematheque, Swan Theatre, 138 Park St, Yeovil. Members £1, guests £5 cinematheque.org.uk (see preview page 8)

____________________________ Thursday 6th 8pm Sherborne Historical Society Talk: ‘Deeds Not Words’: the Militant Suffragette Movement and my Lancashire Grandmother Digby Hall, Hound Street. Dr Jane Crozier explores the final years, 190314, in the fight for women’s suffrage, using a piece of family history to illuminate the bigger picture. sherbornehistoricalsociety.co.uk

____________________________ Thursday 13th 2.30pm Sherborne and District Gardeners’ Association Meeting Digby Hall, Hound Street. A member of the Castle Gardens team will talk to us on ‘Success With Houseplants’ Visitors £2. 01935 389375

Friday 14th 7.30pm Tim Kiphuis Trio – The Five Elements Yetminster Jubilee Hall. Violinist Tim Kliphuis, guitarist Nigel Clark and double-bassist Roy Percy. Highenergy brand of classical, gypsy jazz, celtic and world music. artsreach.co.uk 01935 873546

____________________________ Saturday 15th 10am-2pm Repair Cafe Cheap Street Church Hall. Bring household items to be repaired and avoid landfill. Not for profit organisation. Volunteers and repairers needed. repaircafesherborne@gmail.com @repaircafesherborne

____________________________ Thursday 20th 8pm Sherborne Historical Society Talk: From Caravels to Carnations Digby Hall, Hound Street. Christopher Massy-Beresford charts the development of Portugal’s trading empire over three centuries and its sudden end only 45 years ago. sherbornehistoricalsociety.co.uk

____________________________ Friday 21st 6pm-8pm Ethereal Realm Mindfulness Series (Energy Gathering Workshop) Oliver’s Cafe, Cheap Street. £20. healer@smallfinds.org.uk

Saturday 22nd 7.30pm aKa Dance – A Real Fiction Halstock Village Hall. A mix of dance, theatre, meme and pop culture. artsreach.co.uk 01935 891744. £8, 35 u18s, £20 family

____________________________ Tuesday 25th 7pm Sherborne Literary Society – AGM and Words with Wine The Raleigh Hall, Digby Road. Crossing the Genres: Finding Thomas Hardy. A talk with Peter Tait. Tickets £5 available at Winstone’s

____________________________ Sunday 30th 2pm Singing Bowl Soundbath Oborne Village Hall, Oborne. £15. Bookings 01935 389655 ahiahel@live.com centreforpuresound.org/events

Planning ahead

____________________________ Wednesday 2nd February 3pm & 7pm Sherborne Art Society – Treasures of the Fan Museum Digby Hall, Hound Street. A talk with the museum’s curator Jacob Moss. All welcome. Non-members £7 theartssocietysherborne.org

Thursday 3rd February 8pm Sherborne Historical Society Talk: Britain’s Gurkhas: Their Place in our History and our Future Digby Hall, Hound Street. Col. David Hayes CBE traces the history of the Gurkhas. sherbornehistoricalsociety.co.uk

Sport

Sherborne RFC 1st XV, Tribute South West 1 East Gainsborough Park, Terrace Playing Fields. pitchero.com/clubs/sherbornerfc

Friday 7th 7pm v Frome (H) Saturday 15th TBC v Grove (A) Saturday 22nd 2pm v Newbury Blues (H) Saturday 29th 2pm v Marlborough (H) ____________________________ Sherborne Town FC 1st XI, Toolstation League 1 (3pm unless otherwise stated) Raleigh Grove, Terrace Playing Fields. sherbornetownfc.com Saturday 1st v Welton Rovers (A) Saturday 8th v Devizes Town (H) Saturday 15th v Portishead Town (A) Saturday 22nd v Bishops Lydeard (H) ____________________________

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Friday Lunchtime Recitals

Cheap Street Church, 1.45pm

(unless otherwise stated)

7th January Soloists I 14th January Soloists II 21st January Strings 28th January Singers 4th February Brass 11th February Woodwind 18th February Pianists I 4th March Chamber Music 11th March Pianists II 18th March Wind Band Recital, Big School Room, Sherborne School